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"... Design Some Things to Be Difficult to Use"

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Danica Kaliinen
Kronos TEchnologies
#21 - 2015-03-01 18:48:17 UTC
Velarra wrote:
In some cases, having a tool that obfuscates the mechanical complexities behind it is good, it lets the user get on with creating a product. Or, learning to generate a good product, & understanding what makes the product good. Rather than learning to use every possible aspect of the tool first, before learning why and how an audience likes the final intended product.

I mean, it's probably better to use a text editor to write a report, than take some time to first learn proper use of paper punch cards, memory addresses, and reserved memory addresses due to the strength of the paper cards, to generate the text editor with.

And then there's EMACS.
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